Where does “lũ lụt” come from?

lũ lụt (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese lụt, from Proto-Vietic p-luːt — inonder, to flood.

lũ lụt (Vietnamese): flood generally speaking

Definitions

  1. flood generally speaking

Ancestry of “lũ lụt”, step by step

lũ lụt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese lụt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselụtflood; be flooded; blunt
2Proto-Vieticp-luːtinonder, to flood

via Vietnamese lú

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameselúdelusional; anile
2Chinese盧—
Every word from Proto-Vietic p-luːt →Every word from Vietnamese lụt →